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- 108-Form Tai Chi: Beginning
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Instructor: Lenora Wong
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 11/15/2024
Days: Tu F
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 20
Location: Center for Spiritual Living
Room:
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This is the longest of the six major Yang-style tai chi movements, taking about 25 minutes to complete. Tai chi is known for developing balance, strength, and flexibility. It is a form of meditation in movement. In this class you will learn the first third of the forms, or about 36 moves, in a workshop environment.
This class meets twice a week.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- 108-Form Tai Chi: Intermediate
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Instructor: Lenora Wong
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 11/15/2024
Days: Tu F
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 20
Location: Center for Spiritual Living
Room:
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This is the longest of the six major Yang-style tai chi movements, taking about 25 minutes to complete. Tai chi is known for developing balance, strength, and flexibility. It is a form of meditation in movement. In this class we will review the first 36 forms in a workshop environment. Additional forms will be taught as the group is ready.
This class meets twice a week.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- 24-Form Tai Chi
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Instructor: Mike McCluskey, Mary McCluskey
Dates: 9/9/2024 - 11/14/2024
Days: M Th
Times: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sessions: 18
Location: The Terraces
Room: Long Exercise Room
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This is the shortest of the six major Yang-style tai chi movements, taking about six minutes to complete. Tai chi is known for developing balance, strength, and flexibility. It is a form of meditation in movement. In this class you will learn all 24 forms and by the end be able to join other groups wherever you go.
This class meets twice a week.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- A Place of Inner Peace (In Spite of Chaos)
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Instructor: Gayle Womack
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 10/9/2024
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Inner peace is a lifetime journey done with discernment but not judgment. The only requirement is a willingness to be aware of how much one ruminates about the past or tries to predict the future. This happens while missing what is happening in the present time. In this discussion class we will be aware of a possible runaway ego. The ego can be a good thing or a destructive thing. Awareness can end the destructive ego cycle.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Acrylic Painting
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This acrylic class is for the absolute beginner as well as more experienced painters. We will follow step-by-step instructions to create our paintings while also learning why and what we are doing. Paintings will be completed over several class sessions. All materials are provided.
There is an additional $150 materials fee payable to the instructor at the first class meeting.
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- Adventures in Utopia, Eutopia, and Dystopia: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
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Instructor: Charles Copeland
Dates: 9/12/2024 - 11/14/2024
Days: Th
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 9
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
In 1932 Aldous Huxley created an imaginary future to examine the benefits and liabilities of living in a eutopia based on peace, prosperity, and stability. Does the quest for happiness conflict with liberty, knowledge, and progress? Join this learning through conversation seminar as we explore a future world order organized according to the alleged principles of Henry Ford. Published 92 years ago, Huxley's masterpiece confronts many of today's national and global issues.
The required book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other booksellers. The recommended edition for this class is the Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, ISBN 978-0-06-085052-4.
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- Arts & Eats
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Instructor: Bill Houck
Dates: 9/13/2024 - 10/11/2024
Days: F
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 5
Location: Other
Room: Various Locations
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
We'll visit museums, art galleries, and studios in the area and talk with curators and artists to learn more about the places and the work. Afterwards, we'll go to coffee houses or restaurants for no-host treats and conversation with group members.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Beginning Guitar: Level 2
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Instructor: Phil Elkins
Dates: 9/9/2024 - 10/28/2024
Days: M
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Terraces
Room: Lobby
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class is for people who know how to play the basic A to G chords on guitar, although class members may bring other stringed instruments to play, e.g. mandolin, bass, ukulele, banjo, harmonica, or squeeze box. Or sing along without an instrument! Songs and lyrics will be emailed each week, featuring artists like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Everly Brothers, The Drifters, and other favorites from the 1950s and 1960s.
This class meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month. This class also meets on September 30.
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- Beginning Spanish from Chapter 1
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Instructor: Memo Keswick
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class uses a group study of the book Complete Spanish Step by Step, Premium 2nd Edition, by Barbara Bregstein, beginning with chapter 1.
The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other booksellers.
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- Beginning Spanish from Chapter 5
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Instructor: Memo Keswick
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class uses a group study of the book Complete Spanish Step by Step, Premium 2nd Edition, by Barbara Bregstein, beginning with chapter 5.
The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other booksellers.
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- Chico State Faculty Lecture Series
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Instructor: Sandra Flake (she/her/hers)
Dates: 10/9/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 6
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Hybrid Class: Zoom Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
You may choose to attend this hybrid class in person or online. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered participants.
Chico State's tradition of academic excellence goes back more than 130 years. With over 850 faculty members and 13,000 students, the University's teaching and learning community is thriving. Discover the imagination, cutting-edge research, and expertise that flourishes in our own backyard!
This class will be recorded.
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- Collage x 5
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Five OLLI members who love collage will share techniques and projects each week. Come and make art!
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Conversational Spanish
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Instructor: Jennifer Castañeda
Dates: 9/9/2024 - 11/4/2024
Days: M
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sessions: 7
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
The purpose of this class is to engage in conversation in Spanish. The instructor will provide a topic from a list generated by participants and a brief instruction on vocabulary and sentence frames which will facilitate discussion. Participants will then converse in multi-level groups. Each class will also include a short pronunciation exercise to help the participants improve their Spanish fluency. Participants should have at least an advanced beginner knowledge of Spanish.
This class does not meet on October 14 and October 21.
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- Cracker Barrel
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Instructor: David Price
Dates: 9/9/2024 - 11/4/2024
Days: M
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 9
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Hybrid Class: Zoom Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
You may choose to attend this hybrid class in person or online. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered participants.
A scintillating review of current themes in the media will be discussed in each class. Class members present a topic, discuss it, then open the floor for discussion and debate. Poetry, literature, scientific discovery, and educational progress are examples of the issues addressed. Special guests are welcome to present.
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- Creation Zone
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Instructor: Mary Sweeney, Lynda Klein
Dates: 9/26/2024 - 10/31/2024
Days: Th
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Do you draw, write novels, knit, paint, collage, hook rugs, embroider, or make any other art or craft? Do you need an impulse to get you going? Instead of doing it alone, come to the OLLI Creation Zone. We will have tables (with plastic sheets covering them to allow for messiness) and chairs set up. You bring yourself, your ideas, and your materials. No instruction, no demands, just a group of people creating in comradery.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Creative Cogitations
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Instructor: Hilary Hassenzahl
Dates: 9/12/2024 - 10/24/2024
Days: Th
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 6
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class is about the creative thinking process, how to develop it, and how it applies across a broad spectrum of topics such as invention/innovation, the arts, industry, creative problem solving, repurposing materials, bio-inspired design, and improvisation. Class members will draw on their unique talents, knowledge bases, hobbies, and interests to complete the challenges introduced. The class will be playful and interactive and ranges in subject matter from the silly and fantastical to tackling serious world problems.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Cribbage: Learn and Play
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Instructor: Susan Levine
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 11/12/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Cribbage is a great card game for two people: fast, unpredictable, and portable. Though the game has many rules, this class will take you through all facets of the game, step by step. By the time you have finished this class, you will not only know the game well, but you will also know how to teach the game to others. If you already know the game, come play with us. Been looking for someone to play with? Maybe you will find a new friend and opponent here!
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- Developing Deeper Women's Friendships
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Instructor: Pam Loyd
Dates: 9/12/2024 - 11/14/2024
Days: Th
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 9
Location: The Terraces
Room: Sierra Room
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Most women have a variety of casual friends with whom they socialize, yet many women feel they don't have deep emotional closeness with enough of those friends. They long for more intimate friendships where they feel truly known at a deeper, more personal level. This class will explore how to develop deeper meaningful friendships between women, as well as share our own experiences. Topics will include friendship myths, types of friendships, unhealthy friendships, steps in developing meaningful friendships, and mutual sharing and self-disclosure in friendships.
The recommended book, Friendships Don't Just Happen by Shasta Nelson, is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other booksellers. This class is for women only.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Duplicate Bridge
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Instructor: Sherri Faroky
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 10/16/2024
Days: W
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 6
Location: Bidwell Bridge Club
Room:
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class is for those who know the basics of Bridge and want to improve their game. Each session begins with a lesson followed by play of hands related to the day's topic with guidance from the instructor.
There will be an additional materials fee of $5 payable to the instructor at the first class.
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- Ekphrastic Writing and Art
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Instructor: Joan Goodreau, Jean Varda
Dates: 10/4/2024 - 10/25/2024
Days: F
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 4
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
We will design collages on the covers of blank composition books, then write inside the notebooks about the collage pieces and other art provided for viewing. Composition books will be provided by the instructors.
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- Estate Planning 101
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Instructor: Dana Campbell, Tara Campbell
Dates: 9/9/2024 - 9/23/2024
Days: M
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 3
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class is designed to assist you in planning the transfer of your wealth to a spouse, children, grandchildren, and any other people or organizations you want to benefit from your estate. OLLI sponsors Dana and Tara Campbell will explore the advantages and disadvantages of different methods for wealth transfer to enable you to make better decisions regarding your own estate. Plan on both lecture and discussion as many exciting things can be learned from information and experiences of participants.
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- Exploring Mixed Media Collage
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Instructor: Debbie Vermette
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 10/8/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Collage is a creative medium accessible to people of all artistic skill levels. We'll explore the world of collage by using different papers and techniques. There is no wrong way to create a collage. It is simply a matter of layering color, texture, and patterns. And it's fun!
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Feng Shui Basics
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Instructor: Valerie Althoff
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 10/8/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Feng shui teaches that your spaces are a reflection of your life. If some part of your life is out of whack, your spaces will indicate that. The motto is: change your spaces, change your life. You'll learn to see where you spend time (home, office, car) from a new perspective and get useful solutions (called "cures") to help shift your spaces. This class shows you that these modifications can help enhance and balance your life.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Finding Balance: Stability and Mobility
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Instructor: Mary Sweeney
Dates: 9/23/2024 - 11/4/2024
Days: M
Times: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sessions: 7
Location: The Terraces
Room: Long Exercise Room
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Everyone can have better balance! Balance improves with practice under safe and friendly conditions. Participants will explore balance while sitting, standing, and moving through space, including walking in all directions. Participants will learn how various factors affect balance (and what to do about it), including muscle strength, flexibility, vision, vestibular sense, proprioception, coordination, and cognition. Come experience the art, science, and joy of re-establishing your body's stability and mobility.
This class is for all levels. Wear comfortable clothing that allows for ease of movement. Go barefoot if that is comfortable for you and you have no skin issues. Otherwise, wear thin-soled, flat shoes that work for your feet.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Fitness for Lifetime Mobility
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Instructor: Paul Coots
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Mobility declines with age, but more so if we're not active. Come enhance your physical and spiritual well-being through exercise. We'll practice balance, strength, and flexibility movements that lead to increased mobility. Each class follows a similar routine that can be done at home, allowing you to look after the health of your joints for many years to come. Please wear comfy clothing. Your body will thank you!
Please bring an exercise or yoga mat, a yoga strap or similar strap, and a yoga block or a rolled up towel.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Folk Music in Mid-Century America: Revival or Red Scare?
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Instructor: Rebecca Herring Reiner
Dates: 9/12/2024 - 11/14/2024
Days: Th
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 9
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
American folk music experienced a commercial revival from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s. Its roots in support of the labor movement, and later embrace of anti-war protest songs, earned many performers the label of "communist pinkos." Other performers, however, cultivated a clean-cut, down-home, all-American image. We will explore the history of this dichotomy, then play and sing the songs known collectively as "folk music." Bring your instruments, your voice, and your curiosity. Leave your inhibitions at home and be prepared to have a good time!
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- Frankenstein Returns: Human Enhancement for Social Advancement?
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Instructor: David Donnell
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 11/12/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
We will explore the subject of human enhancement and consider the social implications of the alterations humans are capable of making to themselves and others. Whether a tattoo, the consumption of a drug designed to boost performance, or the surgical alteration of the body, we have a rapidly advancing ability to alter our biology and, in so doing, to challenge cultural norms and potentially threaten long-established social structures. Is this hubris? Do alterations offer the promise of enhancement or threaten peril? Join the discussion!
The class will make frequent use of freely-available digital materials that the instructor will direct you to. Participants may also suggest topics for discussion.
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- Gentle Meditative Yoga Flow
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Instructor: Linda Strand-Talmo
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 11/12/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 9
Location: Chico Creek Dance
Room: Studio B
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Embark on a journey to inner peace with these tranquil yoga sessions. This class is designed to calm the mind and foster a deep connection with your inner self through gentle movements. Participants will engage in exercises performed both seated on the floor and through simple standing postures. This class is open to all, regardless of prior yoga experience. Please bring a yoga mat. While not essential, you're welcome to bring any personal yoga props to enhance your practice.
This class will not meet October 29.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Great Decisions
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You may choose to attend this hybrid class in person or online. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered participants.
"Great Decisions" is the Foreign Policy Association's public education program about US foreign policy and global affairs issues. We will cover four of the Foreign Policy Association's topics and add some additional topics that are of interest to the class.
The topics for fall 2024 will include: High Seas Treaty, climate technology and competition, US and China investment strategies, and pandemic preparation.
This class will be recorded.
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- Living the Four Agreements
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Instructor: Valerie Althoff
Dates: 10/17/2024 - 11/14/2024
Days: Th
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
In 1997, Don Miguel Ruiz published The Four Agreements. He writes that we have, mostly unconsciously, agreed to living as what he calls "the domesticated human," leading lives that can be unfulfilling and difficult. The four agreements can create the experience of inner freedom and contentment. In class, we will discuss each agreement and ways to apply them in everyday life. Familiarity with the book is helpful but not necessary. Just come and learn how to live a more wholesome life!
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Logic in an Illogical World: The Search for Truth
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Instructor: Gary Hedlind
Dates: 10/22/2024 - 11/12/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 4
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
The class will examine common flaws in logic which lead to questionable conclusions: opposites and falsehoods, blame and responsibility, paradoxes, fallacies, emotions, etc. The goal is to become aware of one's own blind spots that are obstacles in the search for truth.
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- Making an Altar to Remember Friends and Relatives We Have Lost
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Instructor: Joan Goodreau
Dates: 10/7/2024 - 10/21/2024
Days: M
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 3
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Discuss, plan, and prepare a simple altar in memory and in honor of friends and family you have lost. Some people observe holidays like Day of the Dead and All Souls Day that specifically honor loved ones who have died; for others, the upcoming winter holiday season and dark winter days can be a time to think of those who have died. The altars we build will give us a concrete, personal way to celebrate our departed loved ones with art, photos, and writings.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Master Gardener Lecture Series
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Instructor: Debra Barger, Felicity Brown
Dates: 9/17/2024 - 10/8/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Sessions: 4
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
California Master Gardeners provide educational outreach from University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) offices throughout the state. The mission of the Butte County Master Gardeners is to extend research-based education and technical assistance throughout the non-commercial gardening community and to foster successful gardening practices by helping individuals make informed decisions about plants, pests, and the environment, with an emphasis on sustainability. Join us as we address a wide range of fascinating subjects.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Medicare Open Enrollment FAQ
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Instructor: Victoria Brennan
Dates: 11/6/2024 - 11/6/2024
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $15.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
The Medicare Annual Open Enrollment Period (AEP) for Part D prescription drug plans and Part C Medicare Advantage plans begins October 15 and ends December 7. This Medicare FAQ class will offer beneficiaries options for their healthcare needs in the coming year. Passages HICAP Medicare counselors will be on site and ready to perform AEP Part D prescription drug plan comparisons and plan changes for attendees who wish to reevaluate their current plan.
If you are interested in having a Part D prescription drug plan comparison conducted, please bring a list of your prescriptions (including name, dosage, and quantity taken per day) and your Medicare card.
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- Music and Musicians
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Instructor: Walter Coffey
Dates: 9/13/2024 - 11/15/2024
Days: F
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Each week we'll view a feature-length documentary or two shorter films. The films will generally feature a performer or composer, the impact of their environment on their music, and the impact of their music on other musicians and on society. Or the focus might be on a style of music from swing to country, jazz to rock. This is a class for the open-minded and intellectually curious because, paraphrasing Mick Jagger, you might not always hear what you like, but sometimes you just might like what you hear.
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- Nature in the Neighborhood
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Instructor: Hilary Hassenzahl
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 9/10/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $15.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Chico is known for its rich biodiversity and parks. Get to know Chico's non-human residents with highlights from four years of weekly wanderings and the research they inspired. Courtship displays, playful otters happily munching, a drinking fountain hawk bath, wildflower blooms, a rare mutant carpenter bee, and more surprises are captured on this photographic journey through parks and surrounding neighborhoods in the heart of Chico.
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- On Being Nonprofit
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Instructor: Janet Rechtman
Dates: 9/9/2024 - 9/30/2024
Days: M
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sessions: 4
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This workshop is for anyone who has volunteered to help a nonprofit or tried to start a nonprofit themselves, including the delights and dilemmas of service and leadership in the nonprofit context. Content includes nonprofit basics, board member roles and responsibilities, and challenges and opportunities for elders in the context of the nonprofit life cycle. There will also be opportunities to explore specific questions and concerns raised by participants. This class does not provide legal advice.
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- Poetry for Pleasure
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Instructor: Paul Belz
Dates: 9/13/2024 - 11/15/2024
Days: F
Times: 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Reading poetry helps you to know things more fully; it commands your attention; and it can sustain good conversation. In this class, participants select poetry from favorite sources to read aloud with fellow enthusiasts.
This class meets September 13, October 4, October 18, November 1, and November 15.
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- Politics and the United States: 2008 to the Present
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Instructor: George Wright
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Since the 2008 Great Recession the United States has faced three separate, but overlapping, crises: stagnant economic growth, accelerating domestic political polarization, and geopolitical challenges to its post-World War II hegemonic status. This class will examine how the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have addressed and/or contributed to those crises. The class will conclude with a focus on how those crises are affecting the 2024 presidential election.
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- Power Your Mind
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Join us as we learn to power the mind. We will discuss topics on ways to love your brain, prevent cognitive decline, and improve your overall mental health. This class will incorporate a few lighthearted and joyful activities, including crafting, mindfulness, and cooking sessions.
This class meets September 18 and October 16.
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- Reverse Mortgage Myth vs Reality
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Instructor: Annette Mercer, Dominic Schuessler
Dates: 9/17/2024 - 9/17/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 1
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Hybrid Class: Zoom Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $15.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
You may choose to attend this hybrid class in person or online. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered participants.
This class will educate you about various mortgage loans and how they can be applied to your unique situation. Experts from OLLI sponsor Tri Counties Bank will address Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECM) and other home mortgages, with an emphasis on dispelling myths surrounding reverse mortgages. Learn about current mortgage rates, loan terms, down payment requirements, mortgage insurance, and closing costs and fees of all kinds. Understanding the difference between various mortgage options can help put you in the driver's seat on your next home sale or purchase. This class does not provide legal advice.
This class will be recorded.
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- Sing Gospel Music
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Instructor: Phil Elkins
Dates: 9/16/2024 - 11/4/2024
Days: M
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 4
Location: The Terraces
Room: Lobby
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Sing and/or play popular gospel songs. Bring your voice, guitar, violin, cello, harmonica, squeeze box, or other instrument and join a group of people singing and playing for fun. This is not meant to be religious. It's just a place to enjoy great music. Join us!
This class meets on the first and third Monday of each month.
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- Sketchbook Journaling
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Instructor: Marvey Mueller
Dates: 10/7/2024 - 11/4/2024
Days: M
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Registration in this class is restricted to participants who meet the prerequisites. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below to request to be added to this class.
Sharpen your drawing and watercolor skills as we paint and sketch together on a variety of subjects. The purpose of this class is to provide a supportive community for those who work to keep their journal practice alive. We will share ideas and sometimes our favorite art materials, the ones that make this practice all the more fun. With all the colors of fall available to us as examples, plan on some brilliant pages in your sketchbook.
This class requires a strong skill level. Only prior students or those who submit their work to the instructor for consideration will be admitted.
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- Smartphone 101: The iPhone
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Instructor: Susan Levine
Dates: 10/10/2024 - 10/31/2024
Days: Th
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 4
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class is an introduction to any version of Apple's iPhone. We will cover the basic structure and functions of the iPhone as well as how to navigate your device using your voice and fingers. The class consists of lectures and hands-on exercises. Most importantly, you will learn how and where to find the answer to the all important question, "How do I…?"
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- Spanish Composition and Conversation
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Instructor: Memo Keswick
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class covers writing and conversation in Spanish. The class will be conducted mostly in Spanish; English may be used for support. Participants will have the opportunity to speak and to write short compositions for review and discussion. The class may have native speakers and professional Spanish educators as guest speakers. There is nothing like having a professional Spanish educator to help learn Spanish conversation.
There is an additional $25 materials and speaker fee payable to the instructor at the first class meeting.
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- Spiritual Principles for Life: Part 1
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Instructor: Rosie Potestio
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 10/8/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Spiritual principles help us follow a path to experience life with strength and resilience. These are fundamental truths that are universally accepted and passed on over many years and through many traditions. As suggested in The Eye of the I by David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD, we will talk about some of the following principles: attitude, humility, kindness, giving up guilt, willingness to realize that "truth" is dependent on context, acceptance, and non-attachment.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Stansbury Home Tour
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Instructor: Dino Corbin, Elizabeth Carrillo
Dates: 9/13/2024 - 9/13/2024
Days: F
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Location: Other
Room: Various Locations
Fee for À La Carte Members: $15.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Located at the corner of Fifth and Salem Streets, the Stansbury Home was built by Dr. Oscar Stansbury, a local physician, in 1883. Owned by the City of Chico since 1976, it is operated by the Stansbury Home Preservation Association as a historic house museum. This tour will include Dr. Stansbury's office, with its display of the tools used in his practice, as well as rooms used by the Stansbury family with original interiors and furnishings intact.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Tap Dance Is Fun
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Instructor: Mary Sweeney
Dates: 9/24/2024 - 11/12/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sessions: 8
Location: Chico Creek Dance
Room: Studio B
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Tap dance involves rhythmic, percussive, and precise movement of the feet while promoting flow and individual style of the entire body. Classes will include warm-up, structured movement phrases that will build in complexity, and creative explorations. All levels are welcome. Good standing balance is recommended.
Wear comfortable clothing that allows for ease of movement and tap shoes, preferably with low heel.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Telling Your Story
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Instructor: Lisa Holeman
Dates: 9/25/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 8
Location: The Terraces
Room: Sierra Room
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Want to hear some interesting stories? Each class session will feature someone telling their life story. Students will have the option of being filmed and given a flash drive with the recording as a keepsake. This token of remembrance can be passed onto one's family or friends. A memoir book will be available to students and a list of possible topics to address when giving their talk. Everyone has a story to tell. Come and share yours!
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- The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight
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Instructor: Walter Coffey
Dates: 9/13/2024 - 11/15/2024
Days: F
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This is one part of a three-term presentation of David Blight's online Yale University class. Four broad themes are closely examined: the crisis of union and disunion in an expanding republic; slavery, race, and emancipation as a national problem, personal experience, and social process; the experience of modern, total war for individuals and society; and the political and social challenges of Reconstruction.
Part three of a three-term series. This part covers the beginning of the war through the end of Reconstruction.
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- The Power of Words: Euphemism, Metaphor, and Mindset
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Instructor: Karen Burdette (she/her/hers)
Dates: 10/22/2024 - 11/12/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 4
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This is a participatory, discussion-based class exploring the hidden assumptions in our language. Does the way we speak influence and manipulate the way we think? Our language is replete with militaristic euphemisms and metaphors, political code words and dog whistles, and hidden assumptions about power, patriarchy, hierarchy, and identity. Many of those words and phrases are so ingrained in our lexicon that we are oblivious to the potentially manipulative power they hold over us and our way of thinking.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Tuesday Tunes
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Instructor: Bitz Haley
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 11/12/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: Haley Music Therapy
Room:
Hybrid Class: Zoom Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
You may choose to attend this hybrid class in person or online. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered participants.
Start your Tuesday with music and songs. Join us in a fun, informal sing-along. Bring your voices and/or musical instruments. The operative word is "fun." If you like music, you will like this class. All levels welcome!
This class meets September 10, September 24, October 8, October 22, and November 12.
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- Watercolor for Beginners
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This class is an introduction to watercolor painting. We will cover techniques, color blending, color mixing, and brush work. All materials provided.
There is an additional $120 materials fee payable to the instructor at the first class meeting.
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- Women's Spousal Caregiver Support Group
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Instructor: Debbie Vermette
Dates: 9/9/2024 - 11/4/2024
Days: M
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 9
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Join other women spousal caregivers to give and receive support. Talking with others who are experiencing relatable situations can be cathartic and helpful. It can also provide a safe space where stories, tips, and humor make a positive difference.
This class is for women only.
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- World Dance
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Instructor: Memo Keswick
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Terraces
Room: Long Exercise Room
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Learn fun social dances from around the world, including Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Greece, Israel, Scotland, and the United States. Line, circle, and couple dances. No partner required.
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- World Dance Songs
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Instructor: Memo Keswick
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Terraces
Room: Long Exercise Room
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Learn to sing or play songs used in world dances. These dances are mostly international folk dance melodies used at local dance club parties. The songs may have rhythms common or uncommon to western music, such as 2/4, 3/4, 7/8, and 9/8 time signatures. Lyrics and music will be provided.
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- Writer's Workshop
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This writer's workshop serves a community of writers interested in sharing their writing and responding to other writers' work. We will focus on fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, travel writing, stories for children, and other types of writing. Following a workshop format, this class will be an opportunity for students to receive feedback for their written work and provide meaningful support to fellow writers.
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- Writing Short Plays
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Instructor: Pam Loyd
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Terraces
Room: Shasta Room
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Learn to write a short 10- to 20-minute play. We will cover the basics of playwriting, including format, structure, character, conflict, and dialogue. This is a workshop-style class in which we discuss concepts and techniques, share what we have written, and write short exercises to develop skills. Prompts will be offered to stimulate your ideas. There will be an opportunity for some of the plays to be performed in the annual OLLI Play Festival.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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